Build to lead: How Lego bricks can make you a better leader
Explore Lego Serious Play, a proven tool for boosting both individual and team productivity.
Business
Insights, tools, and strategies for building 21st century businesses.
Introduction to OKRs
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) have helped organizations like Google and LinkedIn achieve their goals. Learn what OKRs are and how to apply them to your business.
Dave Rauchwerk on creating a $9 computer
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Building with components, community, and fun.
Are you intentionally designing your leadership relationships?
Smart leaders take a platform approach.
The call to ARTful leadership: Embracing adaptive capacity, resilience, and trust
Our VUCAST world calls for a new approach to leadership.
Leading in a time of tumultuous change: Our VUCAST world
Your leadership mindset, decisions, and actions will need to be attuned to our changing reality.
Chris Meringolo and Brian Jepson share a hands-on journey from idea to prototype
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: A walk-through of the O’Reilly IoT Learning Lab.
Analytics frameworks for the startup lifecycle
This chapter from Lean Analytics reviews the various frameworks that exist for growing your business and keeping up with the changes that come with that growth.
Ask the CTO: Balancing development desire with product goals
We can’t build systems in a vacuum--architecture is a multi-year vision requiring an iterative delivery.
Coco Krumme on Silicon Valley culture
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Finding humor in the mythology.
Ask the CTO: Protecting my team in times of stress
Think of yourself not as a shield, but as a selectively passive membrane.
Uncover your company’s hidden assets
The every-day experiences of frontline employees may be an untapped source of insight and opportunity.
Radical candor: Be a better boss
Kim Scott outlines three principles for approaching the relationship between a boss and their team, and shares stories of successes and failures.
Ask the CTO: How do I hire managers?
What to look for and how to approach hiring new managers for teams.
Pitching your IoT project
Getting corporate buy-in for an IoT project requires a much different pitch than one for a typical new product or technology buy. This report delivers practical advice for preparing a compelling IoT pitch to CxO-level execs.
Four facets of an effective grassroots innovation program
Designing an effective and sustainable corporate innovation program is a big challenge—what's been missing is an assessment model.
Ask the CTO: Achieving friction-free status updates
How do I figure out what’s happening in a project without tapping engineers on the shoulder to ask?
Enterprise IoT: IoT strategy execution
A dedicated methodology for businesses preparing to transition toward IoT-based business models.
Ask the CTO: New manager has a fear of losing a technical edge
Navigating the leadership transition from hands-on to hands-off.
In a connected company, management needs to function more like a city
Your job is to design and run the systems that support your company and achieve its purposes: How do you tune the system to avoid rigid bureaucracy, anarchy, or chaos?
How to raise seed funding
The O'Reilly Hardware Podcast: Katherine Hague with advice for would-be entrepreneurs.
6 questions every founder should ask before they raise capital
Don’t rush to seek venture capital without fully realizing what you’re getting into.
Bringing smart baby products to market
A conversation at Target Open House.
Out with the industrial economy, in with the service economy
The majority of business growth in the coming decades—new jobs and new businesses—will come from services.